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Re:Bitpost – Private decentralized messaging by Maran on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:34AM (#8101511)
Not sure if the poster is also the author but why is the application connecting to a server? Is it using a centralised point to connect to the Bitmessage network?

Edit: It also appears to connect to Tor. Perhaps a quick overview of what's happening under the hood could be useful.

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Re:Bitpost – Private decentralized messaging by stevedekorte on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @07:54PM (#8105667)
It's not connecting to a centralized server.

The UI launches a local pybitmessage node in the background which uses tor to connect to the Bitmessage network.

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Re:Bitpost – Private decentralized messaging by awt on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @08:15AM (#8101803)
Collaborator here. Good point. Thanks.
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